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The mention of the Black American gestures is simply to point out that those are new, very recent greeting gestures that have been adopted, and I don't understand how your grandfather shaking your hand would be unacceptable but the handgrab is.
I high five and fistbump with my kids and neices, etc, as well as hugging them, because they are just another gesture. I don't feel anything against using such gestures.
So I don't understand why handshaking gets some folks on here so wound up. But I'm past caring tbh.
Once you go Black American Culture you never go back! *Self Bump Five*
So he can imagine what it'd feel like wrapped around his penis. That's what Southerners do.
I've seen my cousins twice in 15 years, both occasions funerals. One bunch of cousins should be on a reality TV show on Northamptonshire local TV. The other are Christians and once invited me to go on a cycling holiday visiting churches with them.
There is nothing that connects us whatsoever beyond some genetic material. Calling them family is daft when I see the bouncy checkout bird on the fag counter at Morrisons more than them.
As I said I know how to shake hands. I don’t refuse to shake hands so it’s a non issue.
I just don’t buy into the ritual of my forefathers stuff, or the ‘you can measure a man by his handshake’ concept, it’s as simple as that.
If it’s meaningful to you then cool.
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I have meetings all over the country. I've never been fist bumped in a meeting north or south and can't see any regional difference between handshake customs. You get weak ones in the south, overly strong in the north and vice versa.
Similarly fist bumps happen all over, why you think it's a northern thing I have no idea, it's more of a generational thing, or perhaps just a more informal greeting to convey a different form of saying hello or goodbye. All tools to be used by whoever wants to use them, wherever they may be.
As for imported gestures, the handshake originated in ancient Greece.
Also, there's a definite corporate handshake. I wouldn't use it in a family situation and I know what the OP means.
But this doesn't mean I'd think twice about shaking a family members hand, it's just a different type of handshake would be required for the situation.
Someone tried to cabbage it a couple of weeks ago, so I pointed out that that wasn't business-appropriate.
Also agreed with whoever said about the silly "dominant" palm-down handshake. If I am shaking hands then mine is absolutely vertical and my wrist is locked, so if they try a Trumpshake then they look really weird. And I like pointing out that they're being weird.
Anyway they go to shake hands and my brother blurts out "Not your left let me shake your right hand". The hand shake went ahead. My brother was'nt to know my friend had a deformed right hand from birth!. laughed my head off at him.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself